Looking for practical Manx to Dzongkha phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Manx phrase first, then the Dzongkha translation (Dzongkha) — so you can scan quickly before a trip, class, or video call.
The phrases are grouped into eight topics: greetings and pleasantries, useful phrases for travellers, everyday conversation, directions and getting around, shopping and dining, emergencies and health, work and business, and time, days and numbers. Use the table of contents to jump straight to greetings, directions, dining, emergencies, or numbers. You do not need perfect grammar to start — short, clear sentences often work better than silence when you are learning Dzongkha.
Tip: when a Dzongkha phrase looks unfamiliar, compare it with the Manx wording — noticing word order differences helps you understand grammar naturally.
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Greetings and pleasantries
Hello, goodbye, please, thank you, and polite introductions for meeting new people.
Fastyr mie
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལག་(Kuzuzangpo)
Gura mie eu
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་(Thukje che)
Mie eu
དགོངས་མོང་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Fastyr mie
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Oie vie
དགོངས་མོང་དགོངས་བདེ་ལག་(Gongmor)
Oie ghooinney
ཉིན་ལྷག་བདེ་ལག་(Nyeinlhak)
Gree gys y chee
དེ་ལྟར་ལྷོད་(De tar lhod)
Slane
བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Zheyde)
Cre ta d'ennym?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་མེད་རེད་(Khyedrang ga re med re)
Ta my ennym yn John
ངའི་མིང་ཡིན་ཇོན་(Ngei ming yin John)
Kys t'eh?
ཁྱེད་རང་ག་རེ་བཟང་(Khyedrang ga re zhang)
Gura mie dy vel eh er ny chaghlaa
ཁྱེད་རང་དང་བཞེས་བདེ་ལག་(Khyedrang dang zheyde)
Useful phrases for travellers
Airport, hotel, tickets, and transport phrases for getting around on a trip.
Vel oo goaill er y Ghaelg?
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་གི་ཡོད་པས།(khyed rang dbye'd dang bshad gi yod pas?)
Cha noddym goaill er Hindi ynsagh
ང་ཧིན་དབྱེད་དང་བཤད་མི་འདུག།(nga hin dbye'd dang bshad mi 'dug)
Cha noddym ymmodee
ང་གཏོད་མ་བྱུང་བའི་ཡོད།(nga gtod ma byung ba'i yod)
Gura mie eu goaill yn hwoaie
ཁྱེད་རང་ས་སྒྲིག་བཤད་རོགས།(khyed rang sa sgrig bshad rogs)
Gura mie eu goaill shoh ny hwoaie?
ཁྱེད་རང་དེ་འདི་དགོངས་སོང་གས།(khyed rang de 'di dgongs song gs)
Where's y toalett?
ཁྱེད་རང་གསོལ་འདེབས་ག在哪里།(khyed rang gsol 'deb gna'i)